Holding the orb high she stared at it in wide eyed awe, a free skill in the palm of her hands. “What skill?” she brought it close to her face, moving it from side to side, tapping it a few times “hope it’s magic.” She squeezed it, trying to use it but nothing happened.
“erm, how use…?”
[Remember the words of John.]
Mia’s face squinted, distorting in remembering that unpleasant experience of a person “John…” He was different than Hiiro, despite both being heroes John always seemed to be dissatisfied with something, annoyed even, and always expected things to go a certain way… the way he looked at her sometimes caused her to shiver “Stupid toy…”
She shook her head, forcing the image out of her mind “If I stop the church before 3 years, does that mean John doesn’t get summoned?” was something to look forward to.
Going back to what Ami was saying, remembering that guy reminded her how to use the orb. She brought the orb to her chest, wishing for it to be a part of her, and in a blinding flash the orb was gone “Gah!” she reeled back, last time she had closed her eyes but this time she was staring right at it, she recoiled, rubbing her eyes and blinking a few times “spots…”
She shook her head, making a note to avoid that next time “What skill?” she looked over her status, frowning at what she saw.
[Skill: Sewing, LVL 1: The art of all things clothes, can take silk, leather, or even fabric and sew them together to make clothes and armor.]
“not magic” She sighed, ‘guess it would be too convenient’ she was a bit dissatisfied with it, but after some thought, and a quick look down, she could see how this skill would be useful.
One problem.
She didn’t have any of the materials required to start using this skill, which she felt like was a shame now that she was thinking about it. After getting so engrossed in her weapon craft she could just imagine all the different clothes and armor she would like to try… “like the shrine dress…” she shook her head, no use thinking about it.
She double checked the chest, having missed nothing she looked out to the endless marsh “Something to eat…” that took priority.
She could see some moving rocks, probably monsters, some bird monsters, she couldn’t see what was under the murky water…” The trees?” it was the only landmark she could make out, she couldn’t see any more stone structures anywhere, so she headed off to the nearest tree.
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Along the way she encountered more of those toothy fish which she dispatched easily, the difference being they were coming in groups now “annoying.” With a spin and stab of her weapon, and with the rare cast of her magic, they were defeated somewhat effortlessly.
After killing the group Mia continued her way towards the tree. She stopped, noticing the water in front of her was rumbling “more fish?” or that green thing she never got a chance to eat, but to her surprise a bi-pedal bulbus green monster with one giant eye in the center of its headless chest arose from within the depths.
Mia readied her weapon, besides the eye, the thing had a pair of lengthy claws on finned hands, and a giant fin running along its back “…doesn’t look good.” It didn’t look edible.
The creature’s eye twitched, and it dove under water “hm.” Mia stepped back, glancing around, expecting the thing to leap out, instead she felt a chill run down her spine and ducked.
A beam of water shot out from the water’s surface, missing her.
“There.” She leaped towards the source, bringing her weapon down ontop of it, she felt her weapons blade cut into something before it moved, then jumped out of the way as claws extended from the water, slashing at empty air.
“HMH!” she chucked her weapon, it slashing past the claws, cutting into them as they shook wildly, Mia’s weapon piercing into the water behind it.
She landed, forming a new weapon of ice as the creature rose up out of the water, its arms bleeding and the top part of its head bleeding as well “Heh.” Weapon in hand she charged it.
The monster’s eye opened wide, water shooting from its center in short bursts.
Mia winced “ew… eye juice…” dodging the disgusting display she thrust her weapon forward, piercing the creature in the eyes and splattering guts and various juices everywhere, she thought she killed it but the creature rose its arms, trying to slash at her. She gritted her teeth, and pushed forward, twisting her trident into the beast and forcing it to fall, splashing into the water.
“Ha…simple…” she stood over her defeated prey, blood and guts everywhere “yeah, not gonna eat that…” her stomach rumbled in protest, causing her to reconsider. She wouldn’t touch the chest portion, that was way to disgusting, especially the eye juice.
“Arms and legs?” she examined them, lanky, green, bulbus, covered in bumps… “Would it be like a boars leg if I closed my eyes…”
She shook her head, if she had absolutely no options left she would try eating this thing raw. Her stomach once again growled in protest, but she ignored it this time and went to retrieve her trident.
“Hrm?” she reached out and pulled the trident out from the water “How come I know what this is called? oh!” then it hit her, and she excitedly checked her status to see two new skills.
[Skill: Polearms, LVL 1: A skill dedicated to the use of poles and the like, increasing your effectiveness with all pole based weaponry.]
[Skill: Trident, LVL 1: A type of polearm and a three-pronged spear, a particularly deadly weapon. Increases your proficiency and handling of the weapon.]
“Oooooh” She rose her weapon to the sky “So it’s a trident…” she spun it around, thrusting it towards the empty air “feels smoother.” She could just barely make out a difference, but with this she had confirmed she can gain weapon skills by just using the weapons she creates with her magic craftsmanship, leading to the eventual gaining of permanent stat points.
With her trident in hand, and the hastily made trident stuck firmly inside the eye of emergency food, she started towards her original goal, the tree.