In the blink of an eye 5 days went by, except the time when he was sleeping or eating Elliot had been chasing crabs and hunting them down, he had followed the river so far down that the breach was on the verge of disappearing from the map, the mountain was now far from him, when he turned around he could only see the snowy tip of it.
'It's been 5 days already, I've leveled up like crazy and now...'
[ Evans Elliot:
Level : 9
Experience : 13900/25600
Race : Human
Title : Player ( Effects : decreased tiredness, increased focus and player system activated.)
Class : None
Stats :
Health : 391/391
Mana : 0/0
Strength : 24 (+5)
Defense : 15 (+5)
Agility : 25 (+5)
Intelligence : 21
Wisdom : 23
Luck : 2293
Stamina : (+10)
Attack speed : +6%
Skills : None.]
Elliot looked at his feet where a slain crab was lifelessly lying with both halves of its body stuck by only a small body part, he hadn't absorbed its soul yet because just like the second crab he had slain, this one had dropped something !
He touched the soul, inside it was something that looked like a dark green armor, it looked sort of ugly with its turtle shell like helmet but still, Elliot saw anything he could get in this world as a treasure !
[Scissors claw's soul has been absorbed.
Experience points +170.
Scissor's claw shell armor acquired:
Health : +120
Defense : + 5
Stamina : + 5
Movement speed : -1%
"Explosive boost" : movement speed +100% for one second, cooldown : 30 seconds, mana cost : 0.]
Elliot's eyes went completely round, he had seen the "skill" part in his status page and was wondering how to get some but now he had got one so easily !
'It got a skill attached ! This is definitely worth lots of money in the outside world !'
Just like the dagger Elliot decided to put the armor on to keep hunting and that he would sell it when he went back to his world.
[Scissor's claw set effect activated :
Strength +5
Attack speed +5%
Defense +5]
'I don't have a mirror to check but I guess I'm looking really stupid right now, that's not important though. I'll use this to hunt stronger monsters.'
[ Evans Elliot:
Level : 9
Experience : 13900/25600
Race : Human
Title : Player ( Effects : decreased tiredness, increased focus and player system activated.)
Class : None
Stats :
Health : 521/521
Mana : 0/0
Strength : 24 (+10)
Defense : 15 (+10)
Agility : 25 (+5)
Intelligence : 21
Wisdom : 23
Luck : 2293
Stamina : (+15)
Attack speed : +11%
Movement speed : -1%
Skills :
-Explosive boost.]
'I wonder if I'm strong enough to fight other monsters now ?'
Elliot picked up his stuff and followed the river back up, he was curious about what had happened with the monster horde that had attacked the camp near the breach and he also didn't want to go too far from the breach as it was his escape route.
As he was walking back towards the mountain he realized 5 new green dots had appeared near the grotto in which he had seen the door !
'Dammit did they find the door ? I can't let them have my treasures!'
Elliot started running and even with the 1% movement speed debuff of the armor he still ran as fast as a car ! In the recent days he had realized that his physical capabilities had been completely transformed, he was now a super human without a doubt, the only question he had left in his mind is wether or not he would keep this strength, speed and everything else in the outside world.
Now wasn't the time to think about that though and in 4 hours he had arrived at the foot of the mountain, the way that had taken him 5 days while hunting took him only 4 hours while running at full speed !
Of course in these five days he had taken the time to hunt every crab he met and also sat down often to eat or sleep but even if he had ran on the way down without doing these stuff he guessed it would have taken him around 12 or so hours.
When he walked closer to the grotto Elliot stopped running and started walking around sneakily, he wasn't sure if that group had been hunting to level up like him or were well stuffed either, he decided to stay safe and he would leave them the treasures behind the gate if he judged them too dangerous for a reason or another.
On the map the 5 dots hadn't moved from a centimeter and were standing still right on top of the grotto.
'Aren't they going in ? If they had went further they would have moved on the map but they have been standing there for 4 hours already.'
Finally while making as little noise as possible Elliot walked behind a tree from where he could see the grotto, at the entrance he saw one guy and he could barely see other people behind him, he was looking down with a hopeless expression.
Elliot looked in front of him where the guy was looking and realized what kind of situation they were in, they must have been chased down from who knows where by this hyena monster and they couldn't find anywhere else to hide.
'They don't seem like they have went further in the cave, they probably don't know there is a door deeper, I can either let them die here or kill the hyena and they'll probably leave on their own.'
After a short reflection Elliot decided to go for the second option. The reason for this choice were that he wanted to try fighting a different type of monster than the crabs, after he had got the claw dagger killing crabs had became too easy and on top of that he needed too much experience to level up now. The second reason was that he was certain he could outrun this monster if anything went wrong because those guys had been able to.
Elliot walked out from behind the tree wearing his armor and holding the dagger of the same color, contrary to his expectations the scissors claw set actually looked cool on him.
He pulled a bit on the front of the helmet to hide his face as much as possible from the guy on the top and got ready to fight.
"Hey puppy, look here."
The hyena turned around and glared at him and he saw the long teeth that made the hyena look like a saber tooth tiger !