"What is that speck of blood on that tree?"
"I scratch my back on that tree bark, I already treat it"
"So... How's your body?"
"I can move again five minutes after you leave me. My chest felt tight but now it was easy to breathe after you smack my face with some voodoo dust"
I'm an idiot for worried about this scum
She glared at me suspiciously "what's happening to your clothes? It looks burned. Well, it's good that you still have that short pants or you have to use leaves to cover it up"
"I can go full commando if I need it"
"Just do what you want to do, and by the way. Where is the frickin' meat!"
I've risked my sanity to heal this brat and the only thought on her head is all about food ...
"Follow me then, doppelganger the insensible"
"Wanna fight to proves who's the real one heh? Just say the time and place, bitch"
Both of us go to the place where I killed the Zoi Antido. It was already dark but the glows from the otherworldly plants illuminated the way
I hope the whetstone is still there, we can use it to sharpen a small stone and make tools from it, I haven't checked my stats and the new keyword that I got after had a quick date with the death
The sensation after unconsciously grasped my fleeing soul is on another level. I'm grateful to be able to breathe and feel my heartbeat after the fight. It was a blessing in disguise for my view of life, It made me to doesn't want to play with fire anymore
I just wanted a good and carefree life at this point ...
After fiddling with my thought, we arrived at the damp area with the Zoi Antido corpse in the middle of it
"You hunt this?"
"Yup! My glorious first hunt in this forsaken world"
"You messed it up badly, I don't know if the meat is edible at this point"
"It is what it is, I almost died fighting this"
"Almost died? You didn't even have a single wound! This deer is two meters and a half! Don't lie to me"
"It was a complicated story"
I told her about the whetstone, we started to sharpen a nearby small rock to make a carving tool. While we're at it, I told her everything that I've been through including the Quest that indicated the danger of the poison. She also explained her thought about the toxin
"It has two effects on a human body if I considered your story to fit with mine"
The sound of a stone chipped millimeter by millimeter
She throws the whetstone and the rock out of frustration "Fuck! This is hard! How do you even do this!?"
I've noticed the increased strength in my body, but I haven't thought that it will be this significant
She then sat on the ground "Ehem, so it has paralyzed me at first. The duration is around ten minutes until the second effect of the toxin started to kick in. The toxin Infiltrates the lungs of a human body. Now It explains why my chest hurt so much after that"
"If I know this beforehand. I would have just fiddled with your bloody respiratory system. You owe me a soul you got that?"
"I'm the one who risked my life by testing the toxin, and you used my handmade spear so you're supposed to owe me instead. Cause now you get rid of all of the ugly scars on your body. So you're welcome~"
"Well thank you then. Cause your reckless action has risked more of my life than you risked yours!"
She pouts in distress "I don't care either way ..."
After that nonsensical argument. I've sharpened the twenty inches rock for our tools, it was crude but it can cut my skin easily. My dexterity heightened after the hunt to make this delicate sharpness on the edge of the blade-like stone
The brat grabbed a vine and made a surprisingly neat grip for the stone blade
I grinned viciously
"Haha, I'm the one who defeats it. Now, it's your turn to dismantle it"
She clicks with an annoyed grunt "Tch, fine"
While the brat unwillingly dismantles the deer. I decided to check my stats
[Name: Unregistered
Mana: 110/110
Race: Sarkhas
Class: Xyo
Soul Essence: 23.000
VIP Lv: 0
Art learned: - ]|
I still don't have any name even though I still referred to myself as my past self. Also, I have some mana now. I wondered if I can do any magical stuff with this but I have a hunch that the increased limit of my mana is the cause of my heightened strength
Maybe the flooded energy that I got from the Zoi Antido is mana after all, but why it was coming from the deer? Why is it giving me when it wasn't even died? Did that deer lose its will to live?
'Or I'm the one who absorbed it'
"Hmm"
There is too much vague information on my status, I haven't even comprehended what is this mana yet. It will be favorable if it works as an RPG game where you use it as a consumable fuel to cast magic. Furthermore, what is this Art does is still unknown and I don't see any familiar game mechanic too... Except for the VIP system and the unusual currency
"Eurgh"
The Shop is the main point here, I can still see the quest is for the guide and one of the most discerning Information provider of our situation. I still don't know why the currency is called Soul Essence and how they give us the Soul Essence in the first place
"Grrr"
It's like a carrot and stick approach, but with our life at stake
If an unknown highly intelligent civilization is the one who is behind all of this, I still can't get a grasp of what they are planned by doing all of this stuff ...
"Huh?"
Did I do the math wrong?
I got 1.000 by survived the golem menace, 10.000 by completed the hunt Quest, 5.000 for the Sub-Quest ...
Why I got 23.000!?
"I hope you can suppress your annoying animal noises cause I can't focus on my goddamn work!!"
"He~ Mind your own business, lass"
I could care less about the math. Now I need to test the new keyword that was unlocked after the fight
"[Eous]"
[ Eous name: [Still analyzed] _
Abilities: Physical+ | Soul Absorption EX
Potential: Chyros [Temporary] _
Path of Growth: [Unknown] _ ]|
What is this!?
Another uncommon jargon appeared on the digital screen! What is this Chyros!? Physical plus!? Is that the reason why my strength increased? Soul absorption!? What the heck is Eous!??
My head is overwhelmed, I'm not ready to deal with this new function. I can't think logically anymore, and I can't interpret any of this with normal means ...
"I guess some gacha will relieve my mind"