Chapter 4 - The village

Jake had waited till it had become night until he set out. He had decided it would be best to find a safe place to stay when not hunting. Instead of hiding in a grassy where alomist anyone looking down from above could see him. So he took to the night sky and flew in the direction sis told him was south.

"It is a good thing you come built in with a living compass. You may be more useful than I thought sis. Ha. Ow!?!?" As he was laughing he felt that all to familiar shock and was once agian reminded how vindictive sis was.

After about flying for an hour Jake came across what looked like a village. But the was something off about the people living there. When looking at the gaurds some had pointed ears like those you see on elves in manga and games. While others had scales, tails, and wings. Some even have feather and talons. "Sis what races are these people?" Unable to figure it out himself he decided to as sis.

[The first type you are indeed elves. The second type with scales, tails, and wings are drago-newts. A type of humanoid race that was born when dragons had procreated with humans and elves eons ago. The last type are simply put harpies an all female race that has feathered wings for arms.]

"Sis in all the media in my old world harpies were monsters. What separates them from monsters?" He was confused because a lot of aspects of this world resembled popular media in his old world.

[The answer is simple sentience. As long as a creature has a humanoid figure and has a level of sentience. In other words does not rely on their instincts and is able to communicate with other sentient races they are generally accepted in to society. Of course there are exceptions. Also some race are divided into due to this. Like harpy there are some that are classified as humanoids while others are monsters.]

"So it that simple huh." Thinking about it made sense though he did not understand how there were not crusades anganist certain races due to ideology.

[There were and are they seemed to not have affected this area from the looks of it.] From what sis was saying he could see that he was jumping to conclusions for to little information. then he felt it his stomach. He realized that he had not eaten in a day. So he needed to rind something quickly.

He then saw it his next meal a mouse. that was just below him he activated his stealth skill. The dove straight toward it. Then 'CHOMP'. He bite into it's neck killing it instantly. He then started devouring the mouse. Though he hate the taste it was either live or die. And he was going to live.

[You have defeated a foe weaker than you. You have gained 5 Exp and 1 Ep. You have hunted a foe using your stealth skill and increased your proficiency with it. It has reached Lv.2. You have gained 25 Exp and 10 Ep.]

From this message Jake had learned something. Increasing his skills was also away to level up. He had been under the assumption that only acquiring them gave him a bonus. But now he knew leveling them helped too. This showed him he had to learn about the system.

He decided to open the shop finally. Now that he had what he thought was a decent amount of Ep. "Sis Open the shop for me."

[Shop

Current Ep: 116

-Weapon

-Potions

-Regents

-Skills

-Magic]

Looking at the categories in the shop he knew right away that for now only the skills section would be helpful to him. As he was unable to wield weapons, drink potions or regents, or use magic. When he looked in the skills section he saw just what he needed.

[Human language comprehension: Allows the use to under humanoid speech to a certain extent. Effectiveness grows as skill level increase's. Apply to human, eleven, dragoniod, Beastmen, etc. Languages. Cost 100 Ep.]

This skills would help fill in what he was missing for him to become stronger. Knowledge. Simply put knowledge is power the more of it you have the better. He could easily find books about the weakness of certain races, the best food in the world, weapons, magic, etc.

It's the best skill he could of ask for. "Sis Buy the Human language comprehension skill" With no sense of hesitation he bought. then flew above nearest village guards to try to listen in on there conversation.

"Did you hear apparently is-sable had an been caught taking part of the village taxes that were meant to go to the king for herself."

"No wonder she looked like the only not starving during last years drought. That B**** was stealing the crops we worked hard to grow"

"Good thing the king sent out inspectors to every village to help elevate problem from the drought and caught. He even sent use fresh food help feed those who were on the verge of death until we got our next good harvest. Long live the King."

From what Jake could gather the kingdom he was in had recently went through a terrible drought and the king had manage to stave of the famine it should have caused saving millions. It sounded like the kingdom he was in was a good place to live. No he did not find out the name.

He had also Learned that human races have adventures and guilds that help hunt monster and bandits for rewards. As he had also heard about a group of B rank adventurers that had hunted a griffon. That was kidnapping children from the village and was eating them. And that this one variant species as well meaning it was stronger than other normally were in there race. This was all valuable information to him as it gave him an idea of the strength of humanoids.