"Uhmm it was nice meeting you guys but I have to leave, good luck."
Elliot didn't waste anytime and started walking away but he was stopped by the oldest of the three guys dressed in armors, he caught Elliot's wrist and on a reflex Elliot twisted his hand and pulled it back towards him.
'Huh? How strong is this guy to be able to take back his hand so easily ? I'm a trained and equipped knight but he doesn't seem like he loses to me in terms of strength.'
"Do you want something else ?"
Elliot asked while sliding his hand to his backpack, he was about to pull out the Scissor's claw dagger when the guy smiled and said
"Hahaha excuse me sir ! I just realized the princess would have died if not for your assistance. Here is a gift for you."
[Resilience ring acquired:
Stamina +10
Defense +5]
"Although it isn't much it is a token of our gratitude, have a safe trip !"
'Huh? He gave me an item of this world this easily, isn't he interested in selling it to make money ? They must be rich kids who came here to play. They aren't bad though I hope nothing bad will happen to them.'
"Thanks, you too."
Elliot started walking away before the other person changed his mind and put on the ring, he felt a warm current escaping from his ring finger and spreading through his whole body.
'This feeling, I won't ever grow bored of it. It's the same as the one when I absorbed the souls of the crab's, talking of crabs it's time to hunt.'
This short encounter was a first in the history but neither Elliot nor the other group realized that there was a big misunderstanding.
The groups walked south in the opposite direction from the breach and Elliot kept following the river downhill until he arrived in front of a red dot in the map.
'Perfect, I was looking for you.'
Just like the day before Elliot walked close to the river, he acted as a bait to the crab and waited patiently. He knew very well that he could dodge the crab with his normal physical capacities and now since he was holding the scissors claw dagger his body felt as light as a feather !
'This must be the effect of the agility stat, if I had the choice I'd gather only items with this stat. It feels so good to be this light !'
Even though Elliot wasn't fat, his body was still relatively heavy due to his height and muscles.
He put the thoughts about the agility stat away and focused on the river, he was waiting to see the usual ripple before striking down. On the map the red dot was right in front of him but he couldn't see it inside the clear water so it probably meant that the crab was hidden underneath the gravels or a rock.
As expected the crab jumped out from the gravels straight towards Elliot's neck, this time Elliot didn't want to lose any time in a lockdown with the crab and struck the dagger towards the flying crab.
The crab's instincts weren't developed enough to feel that it wasn't the Hunter but the pray in this situation.
The dagger perfectly cut through the crab's shell and popped from the bottom side. The dagger went so smoothly inside the shell that Elliot had doubts.
'What the hell ? Is this crab made of jelly ?'
He grabbed it with his hand but it was as hard as the one he had eaten the day before and he finally realized the strength of his weapon, the knife he had bought with him had completely broken in pieces after hitting the shell of the crab but this knife had killed the crab as if it was nothing !
'No wonder treasures of this world sell for such a high price, I dropped this thing from such an easy monster, if the military guys killed a bigger monster wouldn't they loot insane stuff ?'
Elliot felt his blood boiling, he knew that killing bigger monsters now was near impossible for him but he also knew that if he hunted enough crabs he would be able to move onto bigger monsters later.
He extended his hand and caught the soul of the crab.
[Scissors claw's soul has been absorbed.
Experience points +170.
Level +1.]
[ Evans Elliot:
Level : 4
Experience : 480/800
Race : Human
Title : Player ( Effects : decreased tiredness, increased focus and player system activated.)
Class : None
Stats :
Health : 341/341
Mana : 0/0
Strength : 19 (+5)
Defense : 10 (+5)
Agility : 20 (+5)
Intelligence : 16
Wisdom : 18
Luck : 2288
Stamina : (+10)
Attack speed : +6%
Skills : None.]
'My health points went up by 10 points between level 2 and 3 but went up by 30 points between level 3 and 4 ? I wonder what's the logic behind it...'
Actually it had nothing to do with the level up, he had gotten 10 health points as usual after leveling up but the reason behind the twenty other health points was the ring. The stamina stat increased as expected the stamina but also each stamina point gave him 2 health points, he hadn't checked his status page after he equipped the ring so he didn't realize it.
While he was busy checking his status page and thinking of why his health points increase didn't follow any logic, Elliot got too focused and forgot about the map where a red dot could be seen climbing the river.
SPLASHH
Finally Elliot realized his mistake and moved his neck out of the attack while lifting the dagger but he didn't react fast enough, but he still got his shoulder hit. As he expected to get his shoulder shredded by the sharp claw that was made into his dagger an surprising thing happened.
Instead of the gore scene he expected, the crab's claw stuck him and even tho there was blood, it was only a few drops.
[You have lost 0 hp.
Your defense was too high for the monster's attack to affect you.
Bleeding effect has been applied, you'll lose 1 hp every 10 minutes if not treated.]
The crab looked at surprised as Elliot when it was struck down by a dagger and died on the spot.
[Scissors claw's soul has been absorbed.
Experience points +130.]
'So these crabs actually can do nothing against me... I wonder if I can find another monter to hunt that gives more experience.'
The next few days Elliot walked down the river and kept hunting the crab's and leveling up.