*Thougts*
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Chapter 21: Troll pounding
“~Pant~ Neuron, your good ~Pant~”
“Although I lost ~pant~, lets postpone ~pant~ this conversation ~Pant~ till we ~pant~ catch our ~pant~ breath”
After having rested the conversation went on:
“Neuron, you were quite good there”
“Maybe, but in the end you still won”
“No, the system declared it a tie”
“Nope, I had less health than you, so you won”
“Not a challenge having less health remaining than me though, I`m a tank you know”
“And I’m a ranged fighter, so we are both our nemesis”
*He truly is a bad looser, even though it wasn`t a loss ~Rolls eyes~, oh well, I’m kind of getting hungry*
“Well, well, if you think like that, so have you looked at your status window?”
“No why?”
“To see what skill progression was lowered”
“Ah, no, Show Status window”
And while Neuron looked at his stats Kyle took out his cooking utensils, he got a strange look from Neuron, but Kyle gave him no attention.
“Yo Kyle, for me it was climbing and Pankration, both lost one level, and you?”
“Nothing much, Sword mastery, and Danger sense, the other I don`t need anymore, and Danger sense activates automatically”
So while Kyle was cooking Neuron went to the pile under the statue to identify the items. But there he couldn`t find anything of interest, the weapons that laid there were mostly too rusty to even be repaired, and from some bows only the strings remained, and the other were so old, they would snap, as soon as stringed.
The only thing that caught his eye, were the rings and Necklaces that were given to the archer as a farewell gift, and of course the gold coins. But the jewelry was too high level for them. The lowest had a requirement of Level 150, so Neuron stashed them away without looking at the bonuses they provided.
After that, Kyle still wasn`t done cooking, so Neuron browsed through his Log, cause he had a hunch, that he overlooked a message while checking if something has lowered.
“Boah, nice!”
“~Munch~ What happened? ~munch~”
“I told you not to eat while speaking”
~gulp~ “So, what happened?”
It appears my Mana connection has leveled up to Intermediate, here it states, that my thread has become unbreakable and that I can even choose a new property!”
“That explains, why I couldn`t break it at the end, but isn`t that way too OP?”
“Huh, OP, no, ähm, it can still be cut right?” replied Neuron halfheartedly, cause he had more important matters to think about.
*What should I choose?*
“Here” at this Kyle tossed a fork and a knife at Neuron, “You can also think while eating.” But Neuron didn`t move so he added “Come on, the food actually tastes bad, when I’m eating it alone”
“……”
Neuron didn`t answer, but he still sat himself near Kyle and began chewing the meat, listless, but that didn`t matter to Kyle, the action counted.
“Hey Kyle”
“Hmmm?”
“What do you think about that strange quest we got along with this title?”
“Nothing much, it says, that it won`t take any quest slots from us, and the title is even a secondary one, so we can always gain a right one”
“Yeah, but what I mean is that this guy will become stronger every time and we barely managed to kill him”
“Good, so we just have to level up some more” Replied Kyle, and with this the matter was cleared for him. So he focused his attention on more important things, like the meat, that was currently dripping fat on the fire.
After eating: “Neuron, have you looted everything?”
“Yeah, I pocketed all things that were under that statue”
“Hmmm, have you also looked inside the coffin?”
“Äh, not really”
“Good, let me do it”
After Kyle went over to the coffin, he came back casually and handed Neuron a book
“What’s with that?”
“I just found it lying inside; I think you will appreciate it.” And with that Kyle left Neuron alone while he headed out of the room. Soon he heard a cry of joy from Neuron
*Yay, with this he may forget the Compound Thingy ~grin~*
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It was a rather worn down book with dark leather binding. The inscription was barely readable, but Neuron managed to decipher “Introduction to Arrow creation”
*Boah, this is also what a skill book looks like*
* Arrow creation:
With this skill you can invent your own arrows.
Arrows you deem worthy will be added to the skills list from where they can be made anytime.
Any arrow can be added to the list, but attention, once added it cannot be deleted anymore.
You are also able to upgrade the arrows inside the list, if the upgrade is successful it will automatically replace the old one.
Creation of arrows from the list:
To create an arrow from your list, you will only need the raw materials.
Example:
A arrow made from hazel wood, with a steel tip and chicken feathers.
To remake it you need a bar of steel, a block of hazel wood, some chicken feathers and a predetermined amount of Mana.
Now the arrow will form by itself, taking the required amount of the Materials you prepared.
Attention:
You already have reached the ten skill limitation for a Classless player, if you want to receive this skill, you have either to get a class or delete a skill.
“Yes!”
*So witch skill should I delete?*
“Delete skill Climb”
* Are you sure to delete Climb?
“Yes!”
* The skill has been deleted
* The skill arrow creation has been added
*Good, so what arrow should I add first?*
While thinking about the possibilities, that literally were just too many Neuron exited the dungeon and joined With Kyle to proceed with their journey.
“So, Neuron do you have a arrow in mind?”
“No, not now, damn there are so many possibilities, and I think, that once added a arrow can`t be removed”
“You sure have it tough, but I think we have a more serious problem”
“What?”
“Leveling, did you forget, that no monster attacked us even to the point, that we had to go inside that bloody dungeon”
“Shit, I totally forgot!”
“What?”
“That I have the shower skill”
“And?” asked Kyle not understanding what neuron meant
~Rolls Eyes~ “Come on, this skill can also be used like a bomb, as in the saying if you can`t aim, hit the entire Area”
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“Yeah, true”
“But the hits will still depend on luck, cause for now It only separates into three arrows”
“Either way keep trying, by the way how many arrows have you?”
“Wait let me check, about 300 are left”
“What, I thought Brairan gave you about 500, and I have seen you shooting literally every time! How come, that you have so many left?”
“While fighting I also reeled most shot arrows back, well those whose durability wasn`t zero, didn`t you notice that most of the arrows I shot disappeared soon after”
“I noticed, but I thought that they had disappeared. Durability lost. Or just that they served their purpose, since you mention it, need to repair those arrows?”
“Yeah, would you do that? There are many of them”
“Just give them to me, I`ll repair them and while I do, try to lure some creatures over”
“Right”
And so they set to work Kyle repairing and Neuron using his shower skill. The first troll he approached noticed him and fled, but Neuron had an ace up his sleeve, the Stealth skill, so he sneaked near them, till he could hit the trolls with high angle shots.
First he didn`t hit much, for example he had to shoot 10 arrows, so that one would luckily hit a troll, and thus with every hit he managed to achieve his luck rose. But this lasted only three days long.
After repairing all arrows they went their way towards the other side of the Willamar mountain range, while Neuron stayed true to his job of luring trolls towards them.
And now, after three days he could manage to hit a troll with the shower skill with one or two shots at most, one thing being to his luck stat, that rose tremendously, and was now at 37, and also, because the Shower skill produced 8 arrows, being at level 7.
They even invented something as a new sport When a Troll was near enough, one of them would face it, while the other watched, looking at a stopwatch. So they competed who could kill a troll in the fasted way. This game emerged, because once neuron lured to Trolls over at once, so both had to face one each, and Kyle managed to Kill his shortly before Neuron let the troll he fought disintegrate.
They also used the trolls high recovery rate to boost their own skills and fighting tactics.
But when Neurons arrows neared their end, he had to use it only to attract enemies, Because of that Neuron had to invent new fighting tactics using only his Throwing weapon skill and his Pankration skill. Kyle of course could fight like he usually did. He used his shield to block attacks, and to attack back, while his mace shattered bones.
One Time Neuron lured a four armed Troll towards him, and soon claimed this Troll as his.
“You sure, those are difficult?”
“Let me try something”
“Sure”
Then the troll arrived. First he tried to grab Neuron, but he just jumped over it striking at it with his axes, when the Troll raged and turned around to smack him with a double handed fist, Neuron evaded him yet again, while touching both arms to make a connection between them, the troll swung at him with another hand.
After ducking he again jumped up to land behind the troll, but the beast anticipated it and swung a right double backhand at him without looking. Neuron didn`t think the troll could adapt so quickly and got hit.
* You have lost 10% HP
Of course he lost many Hp, because his defense was likely nonexistent, but while flying away he managed to manifest the connection he just formed, and because the hand was still behind the trolls back it went right through it, locking two of his hands into place. Now the Beast was really furious, it violently tried to break the thread, but of course it didn`t manage. Then Neuron again used jump. But this time he connected both his axes with a thread.
While jumping he tangled it on the throat of the troll, before he even landed behind the troll Neuron placed his feet on its back and used jump again, cleanly severing the trolls head from the torso. As if the body didn’t realize that the head was gone it jerked around but soon disintegrated.
“Boah, that surely was the fastest kill of a troll ever without using magic, this will make a nice video”
“Don`t tell me, you recorded it?”
“Yup, and in full HD” ~Grin~
“Don`t post it!”
“Why not, it was awesome”
“Because I tell you to?”
“Nope, doesn`t count”
“Hah, okay, then do it” said Neuron reluctantly
*Why does it seem, like I always loose against him while arguing*
*Hehe, Neuron can rage pretty good, but if you stay true to your objective he can`t do jack*
“Good, wait here a little, I’m just logging out to post it, who knows, maybe it will even manage to get into the hall of fame?”
*Grrr*
Neuron jumped towards Kyle to stop him, but he only caught a spiritless body, because Kyle already logged out.
*Shit, this fucking Bastard* but contrary to his thought a grin appeared on his face, not of an evil kind, just one of anticipation of all the fun times they both would have.
As soon as Kyle exited the capsule he turned his PC on and connected it with the capsule to upload the new video.
Unbeknownst to Neuron he already posted many videos of their travels, like the act of climbing the cliff, or the boss fight.
But now he had an awesome footage that he could share with the world, of course he edited them, mainly because the excessive swearing of Neuron, that somehow wasn`t censored by the system, well he knew why, but he didn`t want to share it with the world, because he feared of every Player getting this skill. That would become mayhem.
As soon as he was done he logged back in, just to see Neuron fighting against another Troll, this time it was normal one.
*Wow, he uses his thread with such ingenuity, damn I wish I could have seen the whole fight*
The sight he got when he logged in was Neuron diving under a heavy swing and then when he was behind the troll a thread appeared at its foot, nearly simultaneously neuron used jump and brought the troll to fall, because they stayed connected the troll actually flew a few meters in the direction he jumped. Then Neuron turned around and used the bonus the Pankration skill provided while fighting your enemy on the ground to dislocate one of its arms, after that he bound the other arm tightly to the troll, again using mana connection. Now the troll couldn`t stand up anymore, because both of his arms were rendered useless, and Neuron remained at its back. The rest was only a formality of him drawing his axes and hacking away the health of the troll in little chunks.
“Boah, good job Neuron”
“Hey, already back?”
“Yeah, it didn`t take long. You look really hideous; wipe the blood of your face. By the way, why didn’t you do it like before, beheading the troll?”
“It kills them too fast, and I want to level up my fighting skills”
“Right, so let’s go on”
End Chapter 21
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