"......BBLLEERRRGGHHH~~!!... damnit, waking up to puked.....ughhh..my head...hah~~ fuu~~.....".
As soon as I woke up, It feels like someone drop a boulder on my stomach, not enough with that, my head, it's feel like it been spilt open, then bitch slap my brain hundred times the thrown back inside. Luckily all that pain only lasted for a few seconds, after pacing myself, the pain slowly subsides.
"....looks like all that pain was a 'patch update' huh...ohhhh~, I got my leg back..hmm, I'm a bit taller than before..".
Just as usual routine after waking up, tapping my hand all over my body to check my physical state, nothing much have changed, my body seems healthy, no defects anywhere, and I'm still wearing my full combat gear that I wore before I'm dead. My severed leg was back, my little brother..well, I must say I'm VERY satisfied with it. Also, the headache seems to serve as a 'patch update', the common knowledge about this world was implanted inside, so there's no need for me to waste time on collecting information anymore.
"Hah~~ fuuu~~..hap!!! ...1..2....round house!..fuu~~....all seems normal, in fact probably better than before....I can't really see how I look like in this dark cave..huh, what is this?..I never had a leather pouch on back my waist before....huh?..woah..what is this??..ahh, so this is those legendary (Inventory) looks like..ahh...I get it now..".
The leather pouch on my back waist, wasn't your normal every day pouch, it was actually a 'dimensional pouch', how do I know? Because the inside was pitched black, and when I plunged my hand in it, my finger never touch the bottom, but instead a blue transparent panel, appeared in front of me. It got 10 pages, each pages got 100 small boxes, it looks exactly like a game interface. By the way, the only items in this pouch was, a letter, a book, a set of barrier stake, my Heavy SCAR rifle, P226 Legion Handgun, a loaf of bread and a water skin. The way to use the inventory was, all I had to do is choose the item using my mind and take it out from the bag. The whole process remind me of a certain mouse robot, ( ehem,the blue one).
" [ Kachak! ]..hmm, fully loaded..no mistake, it's my guns...now, I guess this letter is for me..".
( Dear James,
Sorry about the pain, I hope you like your new body ;-)... By the way. I already compiled some basic skills for you, just read the book, also you can view your status by saying 'Open Status' only you can see them, so don't worry. The pouch and waterskin is a rare items, so don't lose em. I don't know where you going to end up down there, probably dungeons or plains.... anyway be careful out there, and good luck..
P/s: this letter will burned by themselves after you finished reading them. Bye.
)
"Woah!..what the hell?..this isn't mi**on imp#***ble you know......owh the book....hmm, well he did say some..".
The 'book' wasn't even a inch thick, even the size was also small, rather than calling it a book, a pamphlet was more accurate to describe it. There's 5 pages in it, each pages has one skill on them. 1st [ Appraisal ], 2nd [ Universal Language Comprehension], 3rd [ Half-Immortality ], 4th [ Harvest++], 5th [ Map ]. Without any hesitation I read the whole 5 pages, as soon as I finish the book, I feel a surge amount of new information sucked into my brain, after that I know what they were and how to use them.
"Appraisal..".
[ Appraisal EX ( Lvl. N/A ) ]
[ Enable user to appraise anything. Undetectable. Made especially for James Joon. ]
[ Universal Language Comprehension( Lvl.N/A]
[ Enable user to converse, write, read, all language existed in Altenna. Made especially for James Joon. ]
[ Half-Immortality ( Lvl. N/A) ]
[ With each level up, 1 year will be added to existed life Spand. If user Vitality dropped below zero (Death), 10 years of existed life span will be deducted to replenish the Lost vitality(Revive). Caution, if all life Spand we're spend, user will die permanently. Made especially for James Joon ]
[ Harvest++ ( Lvl. N/A) ]
[ Enable user to harvest materials, without manually dismantle them. Due to special modifications, High Quality material percentage went up by 100%, possiblity of dropping Skills Shard by 100%. Made especially for James Joon ]
[ Map (Lvl N/A) ]
[ Enable user to views Map of Altenna in Real time. Map can't be view from inside a dungeon or underground.]
"....he definitely said that it will makes my life easier..I didn't expect to have this kind of precious skills though.... anyway, it time to check my own status...Open status!..".
Just like that, the same transparent blue panel as the inventory appeared before me, this time what's written on the panel wasn't small boxes but a detailed information of me.
[
Name: James Joon
Age: 20 / 200
Gender: Male
Race: High Human
Class: Royalty ( King of High Human)
Level: 1 (0/100 Exp)
Condition: Healthy
Title: N/A
Status attributes:-
Vitality: 100. | Mana pool: 200
Strength: 50. | Dexterity: 90.
Wisdom: 100. | Agility: 60
Magic:-
Time Magic (Lvl. N/A)
( Spells available (2) : [ Stop], [ Rewind] )
Skills:-
Unique:-
Online Shopping Mall (Lvl N/A)
Create Infrastructure ( Lvl N/A)
Double The Fun ( Lvl N/A)
Passive:-
Universal Language Comprehension (Lvl N/A)
Half-Immortality ( Lvl N/A)
Map (Lvl N/A)
Active Non-Combat:-
Appraisal EX ( Lvl N/A)
Harvest++ (Lvl N/A)
Combat Skills :-
Active Combat:-
N/A
Passive Combat:-
N/A
Affiliations:-
N/A
Subjects:-
N/A
]
"Clean slate huh...I suppose so, although I know some combat techniques..I guess i need to perform it first..it should works like in those light novels..... looks like I'm a High human..and a Royalty probably because I'm the only High Human in this world?...if I'm going to questions everything, nothing will happen anyway..if he set it that way then, suppose I should accept it anyways..okay, how do I use this Shopping Mall?..[ Appraisal ]...".
[ Online Shopping Mall (Lvl N/A ]
[ Enable user to Buy and Sell items from Earth, no limitations of items and quantity that can be bought and sold in the mall. Currency used in transaction was Virtual Coins, obtainable by killing foes or selling item to the mall. Requirement for using Online Shopping Mall, Dimensional Storage device : ✓| Virtual Coins : X |. Can only be used by James Joon. ]
[ Create Infrastructure (Lvl N/A) ]
[ Enable user to build any infrastructure from Earth instantly, Require Materials. Consume 10 MP upon use. Can only be used by James Joon]
[ Time Magic (Lvl N/A) ]
[ Enable user to Manipulate time. Due to it nature that interfere in the laws of Nature, User can only use 2 spells, ( Stop ) stopping time flow for 1- 5 minutes:- consume 100 Mp per use. (Rewind) Reverse time flow, 1 minutes prior to present time consume:- 200Mp per use. The Area of effects was 500 meter radius around the user. ]
[ Double The Fun ( Lvl N/A) ]
[ User will gain 2× experience points. User will gain 2× Skill mastery points. ( P/s. This is what you wanted right?..now that I created this skill, I can't help but think that I've been duped big time..). ]
"Hahaha...he even slip a complained in the description...he really give me the Time magic huh...it's kinda OP in my opinion..based on my Mana pool...better use it as a last resort.... looks like I need Virtual coins to access the Mall...".
To me all of this was kind of satisfactory, if it's up to me, I wanted more OP skills, hearing from what Orbot says, Altenna right now was kinda messed up. There's a whole lot of shaddy shit out there, there's probably something that were hundred times stronger than me. Even so, I feel extremely elated to explore this world, I can't wait to see how ugly an Orc was.
"...1st I need to know where I'm at..[Map]...nothing huh, so that's means I'm inside a dungeon or underground...If it's a dungeon then i might encounter some Monsters..better move then..".
There's nothing much to do right at the moment, so I decided to move on. Since all the stuff I wore last time were brought together with me, of course I got some devices to help me moves in the dark. Instead of turning on the flashlight on my handgun, i choose to use my night vision goggle. Upon turning on my night vision goggle, I can clearly see everything around me. Right now, I'm standing inside a 4×4 meters stone hallway, based on the hallway conditions I assume, this place probably some kind of ruins to one of the old civilizations. I can see some moss and water dripped from the ceiling, this place definitely build underground.
"Catacomb?..or Maze?... definitely either one of those,... it's so humid in here...".
Supprisingly this place doesn't have any forked, aside from several corners left and right it was pretty much straight. It's already 20 minutes since I started to move, yet I still haven't found anything, not Monsters, not even a skeleton.
"Am I to deep?... there's nothing here but dust... this is definitely not what I imagine..huh,..boulder?..".
I imagined I would definitely be fighting after 1 hour loitering inside a dungeon, but nope, this place was barren all around. 30 minutes later, finally I saw something different from the empty Hallway, it was a stone boulder, Large stone boulder, 3 meter high and 3 meter big, it's almost blocked the entire hallway. But for some reason, my instinct tell me this thing is not your normal boulder. To be safe, I stopped and kneel on the floor 10 meter from the boulder.
"...[ Appraisal ]...".
[
Giant Stone Slime
Rank: A
Age : 5000 years old
Level : 101
Title : Unmovable Blockade ( Vitality + 100)
Status attributes:-
Vitality : 5000 (+100) | Mana pool : 3000
Strenght : 1978 (+100) | Dexterity : 95
Wisdom : 30 | Agility : 40
Skills :-
Combat Skills:
Bash ( Lvl. 3)
Rolling Attack ( Lvl. 4)
Body spike ( Lvl. 2)
Passive skills:
Solid State ( Lvl. 3)
Strenght UP ( Lvl. 5)
Vitality Up (Lvl. 5)
Description:-
( Rock elemental slime. After 5000 years of roaming in the hallway of Moors Catacombs, it body has turned to a stone boulder which can't be moved, not by anyone nor by itself. )
Reminder :-
( Slow and stupid. But be cautious, once it start to attack and Rolling, nothing can stop it..)
]
"I was expecting to meet a slime..but not a giant one...5000(+100) vitality..damn, how do I even kill this thing??....grenade?..wait, I remember those novels said that slime weakness was it nucleus...".
If it was a normal translucent slime, it was easy to spot that nucleus. The problem was, this guy IS a stone boulder obviously the nucleus was hidden. I definitely don't want to run from it and I definitely don't want to back down from a freaking slime (it's a typical rite of passage in fantasy world). There's only one way to do it, drill the hell out of it with my rifle and stuff it with explosive. I remember that I brought 5 pound of C4 with me in my backpack, immediately I mould 1 pound of C4 to a cylinder shape and stick the detonator inside.
"That should do it....wait..C4 is an equipment right?...shouldn't it have it's own status...must be right?....[Appraisal]...".
[
Name : 1 Pound C4 (Complete)
Type : Explosives
Attack power : 99999 ( per pound )
AoE : 500 meters radius
Description :-
( Modern type of Explosive from another world. Capable of destroying everything. Can't be trigged by it self, required detonator to trigger the explosion. )
]
".......well, this will definitely kill it..and along with me...hah~....huh?..wait if a C4 got 99999 attack power..what about..[Appraisal]...woah~".
[
Name: FN SCAR-H LB
Type:Battle Rifle
Durability: 100/100
Attack power: 9999 (per bullet)
Capacity: 7.92mm ( 20 )
Description:
( Complex and advance Hot weapon brought over from another world. Dangerous to it's foe and to the user, required a specific knowledge to handle this weapon. )
]
"........ Let's try this...".
[ BANG!! BANG!!!! ].
"...........2 shots..I guess that's acceptable.. considering the 5000++ vitality points.. .".
I was honestly shocked by how easy it was to kill the Giant Slime, But I suppose 2 shots from a 9999 attack power were acceptable, 1st shot destroyed the Giant Stone Slime body, it made stone debris flying everywhere, 2nd shot destroyed it's nucleus. The Giant Stone Slime body crumbled into a pile of pebbles when it died, on the pile of pebbles I can see a brown orb with a size of soccer ball, and 2 blue crystal shard.
Now that I think about it, vitality point was just an indicator of how strong the entity life force or physical defence was, even if the target have a high Vitality point, one can still inflict damage but the damage won't be lethal. In my case, my weapon have higher attack power than the slime vitality point, that's why I can killed it, but I still need 2 bullets to do it, 1 shot was to destroy the mass chunk of it's stone flesh and then 2nd shot was aim at the nucleus and killed it. After all this world ONLY possess a gamey vibe to it but, it still a real world that follow the law of nature just like earth.
( Giant Stone Slime killed, 50 000 Experience points Gained. [ Double The Fun ] triggered 50 000 × 2 = 100 000 Exp )
( Leveled up! To 51!. 510 status point gained )
( New skill gained! Passive Combat [Advanced Marksmanship (Lvl. 1). [Double The Fun] triggered Skill mastery 2× [ Advanced Marksmanship (Lvl. 2). )
( 500 000 virtual coins gained! )
Raising to Level 50 in one go was definitely a good thing, although I'm already a distinguished Marksman, gaining a skill on it wasn't all that shocking to me. Even without it I know what I'm good at, I'm a soldier that possess 20 years experience operating in special forces, 10 years in various departments, logistics, medic, engineering, communication, etc, then another 10 years in charge of commanding ten thousands of man. Still, getting an official acknowledgement when you Mastered something, kinda give you a good feeling in yourself.
By the way, each levels up will grant me a 10 free status point. I can freely assignment the point on any attributes I want. I will assign them later though, I should probably check on the drop item left by the Giant slime.
"....smooth..kind a looks like a big pearl....it even have some Aura coming from inside... This card...is it a skill card??.. [ Appraisal]".
[ Monster Core
Rank : A+ (Rare)
Elemental : Land/ Stone
Description:-
( A land/stone Monster Core from 5000 years old, Titled, Rank A Monster [ Giant Stone Slime ]. Killed by James Joon. )
]
[
Name: Vitality UP
Rank: A ( Rare)
Description :-
( Each level up will give user an additional points to Vitality attribute. )
]
[
Name: strenght UP
Rank: A ( Rare)
Description :-
( Each level up will give user an additional points to Strenght attribute .)
]
"Good skills...Learn!....fuu~~, so simple... probably I was the only one who can get skill shard this easy...".
There's only 3 way one can obtained a skills, 1st By using a Skill shards that was dropped by a monsters, but obtaining a skill card isn't that easy, normally skill shards drop rate was only 0.01%, you need to be extremely lucky to get them, of course not me, I got [ Harvest++] which make my dropped rate 100%. 2nd, one can obtain a skill by repeatedly doing a specific actions and possess a deep understanding on the process, this option can either be self-taught or being instructed by someone who possess a skills, still it would take a long time to learn them, then it would take even a longer time to levels and master them, of course this way also doesn't apply to me, I got [ Double The Fun] that will always give me a 2× mastery experience, I can learn and master any skill in shorter Spand than any living beings in this world, probably. 3rd way was using an items called Skill tome, basically read a book that possess a detailed information and knowledge of specific skills, this way one only need to have a high level of understanding and high IQ, apparently Skill tome was even harder to get than a skill shard.
Since both skills were good I decided to learn them, to learn them all I have to so was say 'learn' and crushed the shard. Both skills give me 100 points on Strenght and Vitality attributes, also I distribute the whole 510 free points on each of my status attributes, since my wisdom already at 100, I only add 10 points on it, balanced distribution to say. I took 5 minutes to reviews all the changes in my status, after storing the monster core on my dimensional pouch, this time I decided to put my backpack and other unnecessary items, wallet, phones, etc. inside, and continue to advance slowly.
+++---- 1 hour later ----+++
"..finally...looks like this time, I might find something..".
It's already been 1 hour since I killed the Giant Stone Slime, I've probably walk for 2 kilometers in this empty catacombs. Finally I found a stairway leading up, when I arrived at the new floor, immediately I found monster. This floor weren't like before, there's a LOT of movement here, Counting just the by what I saw, there's at least 50++ of them.
"..Slimes...Stone Slime..sand slime...looks like these guys were weaker than Giant slime..still there a lot of them...".
I cast [Appraisal] on the Slimes, there's only 2 kind of them here, Sand and Stone. Still the average levels was 40 and above, yet none of them were bigger than a soccer ball, their body also a bit translucent, I can see their nucleus rolling inside as they moves around.
"None of them found me yet huh.... it's time to go for Stealthy assault....".
Storing my rifle inside my Dimensional pouch, I bring out my Signal Sauer P226-Legion equipped with silencer and red dot scope, I also brought out my tactical combat knives, it's a Columbia river K100kkp fixed blade model, with 10 inch blade length and G10 black grip, I looks menacing also the whole thing is black so it's Stealthy for sure, I fastened them on my thigh, in case of the slime come close I would handle them with knife instead of a gun.
[ PSSSHHHPPP!! ]
".. aren't they supposed to retaliate or something....I just killed one of their mate, yet they still haven't noticed me..are slimes supposed to be this dumb?...".
I just killed one Lvl31 Sand Slime with my Handgun, I thought the others will start pouncing on me, yet all of them just ignored the fact that their mate just got killed, Looks like Slimes aren't like I'm pictured them to be.
"..now that I think about it..slime doesn't have any, sensory organ to begin with...should I just test them?.. Nah..I can just draw a conclusion while killing them.....".
I decided to start killing the slimes, I started to clear the one that close to me. I have a habit of not wasting bullets, every shot counts, of course I emptied the whole mag of 20 bullets and kill 20 slimes. If you give a time for someone like me to take his time with a Gun, it's a guaranteed that I would not miss. Now that 30 Meters in front of me has been cleared, I need to buy more bullets, because there's plenty of this slime on this hallway, maybe even the whole floor was filled with them. Calling out my status screen, I tap on the [ Mall ] button.
" Hmm..It does look like the online shopping mall, there's items from both world huh...even a limited time offer...".
It looks exactly like any online shopping mall, even works like one. There's wide range of items in here, it includes the items from Earth and Altenna. I bought, 1000 round of bullets it cost about 1500 virtual coins, 50 MRTE for 70 virtual coins, camping gears for 100 virtual coins, that brings the total of 1670 virtual coins. Roughly it a price of 5 Lvl 30 slimes, which is very cheap. Each of the slimes here give me roughy about 350 virtual coins, I just killed 20 which give me 7K virtual coins on top of the 500K, so yeah, I'm rich.
All the items I buy, would end up inside my Dimensional Pouch, also it seems the same Item would stack, this save me some space in my storage. Since there's nothing to buy for now, after reloading my handgun, I started to exterminated the slimes once again.
_______________________________________________
[
Name: James Joon
Age: 20 ( 279 years life Spand)
Gender: Male
Race: High Human
Class: Royalty ( King of High Human)
Level: 59 (560 980/600 000 Exp)
Condition: Healthy
Title: N/A
Status attributes:-
Free status attributes points: 80 points
Vitality: 200 (+100) | Mana pool: 200
Strength: 150(+100) | Dexterity: 190
Wisdom: 110. | Agility: 160
Magic:-
Time Magic (Lvl. N/A)
( Spells available (2) : [ Stop], [ Rewind] )
Skills:-
Unique:-
Online Shopping Mall (Lvl N/A)
Create Infrastructure ( Lvl N/A)
Double The Fun ( Lvl N/A)
Passive:-
Universal Language Comprehension (Lvl N/A)
Half-Immortality ( Lvl N/A)
Map (Lvl N/A)
Vitality UP ( Lvl. 1)
Strenght UP (Lvl. 1)
Active Non-Combat:-
Appraisal EX ( Lvl N/A)
Harvest++ (Lvl N/A)
Combat Skills :-
Active Combat:-
N/A
Passive Combat:-
Advanced Marksmanship (Lvl. 2)
Affiliations:-
N/A
Subjects:-
N/A
]
James Joon Status as chapter 1.